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VA - (1995) Sounds & Pressure Volume One CD

Pressure Sounds ‎– 005 

 Tracklist
1 –Keith Hudson Barbican Dub 2:38
2 –Horace Andy Problems 2:49
3 –Augustus Pablo Ras Menilik Congo (Harp) 2:38
4 –Black Skin The Prophet Red Blood 3:24
5 –Prince Far I And The Arabs Mansion Of Invention 2:48
6 –Keith Hudson Black Belt Jones 3:12
7 –Little Roy Tribal War 3:09
8 –Keith Hudson Sinners 3:33
9 –Prince Far I And The Arabs Bass Ace 3:52
10 –Israel Vibration Same Song 3:59
11 –Augustus Pablo King Tubbys Dub Song 3:21

VA - (1996) Sounds And Pressure Volume Two CD

 Pressure Sounds ‎– 010 

Mostly raw edged low key tunes from a variety of top Classic era Reggae artists and a couple of tracks not readily available elsewhere make this a great intro to Pressure Sounds Reggae reissue label.
Sound mastering is mostly very good with some songs sourced from vinyl.

VA - (1997) The Best Of Ska! CD

 Boomerang Records ‎– none

Tracklisting
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1. Desmond Dekker & The Aces - Intensified [02:37]
2. The Ethiopians - Train To Skaville [02:55]
3. Don Drummond - Man In The Street [03:22]
4. Toots & The Maytals - It's You [02:05]
5. The Blues Busters - The Wings Of A Dove [02:38]
6. Dandy Livingstone - Rudy, A Message To You [02:33]
7. The Ethiopians - Come On Now [03:16]
8. Dave & Ansel Collins - Double Barrel [02:30]
9. The Blues Busters - Shame And Scandel In The Family [02:22]
10. Toots & The Maytals - Never You Change [02:30]
Playing Time.........: 26:53 

VA - (1998) 100% Dynamite CD

 Soul Jazz Records ‎– 040
"100% Dynamite" is the first in a series of 5 compilations of Jamaican music across time. While the other 4 jump from dancehall to dub and back to ska without any real regard for chronology, "100% Dynamite" focuses on the ska recordings which led to the style we all now know as reggae.

While this is a considerable boon to the fan of Jamaican music, those whose experience of ska is found in the ska-punk fusions of America and England will be sorely disappointed. Much of this disc is instrumental and, while it is very exuberant, the style is quite different to what passes for ska these days.

The first selections ("Armagideon Time", "Night And Day" and "Rock Steady") are all vocal cuts and not representative of the disc at all. "Armagideon Time" is an early rastafarian spiritual, while "Night and Day" and "Rock Steady" are both love songs - with the latter being voiced by a woman.
By the fourth track, the Upsetters' "Popcorn", the album takes off. Lee Perry, the man behind the Upsetters, can already be heard working his trademark studio magic that would later feature on recordings by artists as diverse as Bob Marley and Junior Murvin. The track is a deceptively simple bass, drum and guitar melody which varies ever so slightly and at the least expected moments.

Legendary saxophonist Tommy McCook also contributes a number, "Green Mango". McCook, a founder member of the Skatalites - the seminal ska band - leads from the front with the desire of a jazz player. "Greedy G", by the Brentford Allstars, which follows this performance is also a standout.

The rest of the disc is also very strong. Jackie Mittoo (Skatalites pianist) acquits himself admirably on "Stereo Freeze", and Phyllis Dillon's heartfelt "Woman of the Ghetto" could well be claimed as one of the first "sufferer's songs". Lloy'd Robinson's "Cuss Cuss" demonstrates a clear link to the reggae for which Jamaica would very soon become famous, his sweet vocals counterpointing with the important message of the song.

Overall, this album is a very useful collection of early ska and proto-reggae. Many of the artists are under-represented at best on the CD racks of the world, and these recordings are certainly among their best. Thus, from a serious fan's point of view, the compilation is very much worthwile.
The ska or reggae newcomer may also benefit from this disc, but this is slightly less likely. The sad truth is that, after all is said and done, many of the instrumentals do tend to blur into each other - no matter how outstanding they may be. The newcomer may be better served with a Skatalites greatest hits to begin with.


 Tracklist
1 –Willie Williams Armagideon Time 2:31
2 –The Maytals Night And Day 2:49
3 –The Marvels Rock Steady 3:05
4 –The Upsetters Popcorn 2:05
5 –Tommy McCook Green Mango 3:40
6 –Brentford All Stars Greedy G 3:37
7 –Lennie Hibbert Real Hot 2:27
8 –Johnny Osbourne We Need Love 3:36
9 –Jackie Mittoo Stereo Freeze 3:05
10 –Cedric Im Brooks Give Rasta Glory 4:21
11 –Sound Dimension Granny Scratch Scratch 3:56
12 –Phyllis Dillon Woman Of The Ghetto 3:22
13 –Lloyd Robinson Cuss Cuss 6:27

14 –Sound Dimension Drum Song 4:22

VA - (2000) Rare Reggae Grooves From Studio One CD

 Heartbeat Records ‎– 11661
Rare Reggae Grooves From Studio One is a follow up to HB 224, Studio One Showcase Volume 1. In the mid to late seventies in Jamaica, it became popular to extend each song by adding an instrumental reprise at the end of the vocal version. This allowed the producer to extend the song from three minutes to sometimes over eleven minutes, which ensured that if you had a hit, it would keep the dance floor filled for a good amount of time! At Studio One, this resulted in countless 12" mixes of some classic hits as well as many that were deemed suitable for extending because of their popularity.
Many of the songs on Rare Reggae Grooves From Studio One were originally released in the late sixties and re-released in their extended version ten years later. All the tracks were overdubbed from their two track origins and then remixed and released. Many feature the drumming of the legendary Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace who was a member of the Studio One Band.


Tracklisting
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1. Lloyd Robinson - Cuss Cuss [06:25]
2. Peter Broggs - Sing A New Song [04:10]
3. The Gaylads - Love Me With All Of Your Heart [04:12]
4. The Silvertones - Take A Little Love [07:01]
5. Ken Boothe - Come Running Back [06:13]
6. the martinis - My Baby [06:12]
7. arthur robinson - Moments [06:15]
8. Going To Zion - Going To Zion [06:43]

Playing Time.........: 47:12
Total Size...........: 88.89 MB

The Archangelos Chamber Ensemble - (1999) Metamusic Masterworks CS

 Hemi-Sync ‎–  none

Enjoy inner peace and transcendent relaxation as the Archangelos Chamber Ensemble performs timeless gems.

Use Masterworks for expanding awareness through musical imagery and self-exploration; for deeper, more profound meditation; or simply for musical enjoyment.


It`s More Than Music … It`s METAMUSIC

Over thirty years ago Robert A. Monroe, a then successful radio producer, began a research and development organization to study the effects of sound on human consciousness. The result of that research is the world-renowned binaural beat technology called Hemi-Sync.


Hemi-Sync, an abbreviation for hemispheric synchronization, is a process which utilizes carefully blended and sequenced sound frequencies to synchronize the left and right hemispheres of your brain. This enables you to transform the diffused power of your brain`s hemispheres into a focused whole-brain state.
The ongoing research being done at The Monroe Institute is providing the world with state-of-the-art tools for a wide range of applications such as stress reduction, heightened creativity, pain control and meditation. Around the globe, doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, as well as thousands of others, use Hemi-Sync in achieving these goals.


Masterworks for Relaxation is performed by the award-wining players of The Archangelos Chamber Ensemble. Feauring the inspired Baroque music of Bach, Vivaldi, Corelli, and others, the arrangements are designed to maximize the relaxing effect of this timeless music. Adding Hemi-Sync to the mix, Masterworks is the forerunner of the music of the future; classical art and high-technology combined for specific applications.


* Do not drive or operate machinery while using this product.

VA - (2001) Studio One Soul CD

 Soul Jazz Records ‎– 050
The story of the influence of US music on the development of Reggae has been versioned many times. For all the keen reception in Jamaica of radio stations line WINZ out of Miami and WNOE from New Orleans, and the regular appearance on the Caribbean circuit of such American stars as Aretha Franklin and Curtis Mayfield, it is from the beginning a history driven by the wayward magic of records, the expressive charge and allusive fascination of vinyl, covers, labels. An English chartbuster on the Mod imprint Immediate, for example: 'The First Cut Is The deepest', a Cat Stevens song covered by P.P. Arnold with proto-prog-rockers The Nice, cropping up here by Norma Fraser. This is the version excursion of composite musical cultures continuously recycling and renewing themselves, enmeshed with the biggest mass movement for social justice and civil rights of the twentieth century. It is the story of barriers broken down and new solidarities opened up: a kind of 'musical communion' as a Baba Brooks title puts it, patterned by the outernational hand-to-hand passage of records, its key setting the sound system dance.

Clement Dodd himself was an avid record-collector, a Jazz connoisseur. His father's job on the docks turned up records brought by American sailors to exchange for rum, maybe to pay off a pimp. As a migrant farm worker in the early fifties he would return from Florida cane fields with the best new R&B for his Sir Coxsone Downbeat Sound System, still buzzing with the excitement of local juke-joints. Soon he would be licensing records for distribution in Jamaica: and bulk-buying from warehouses in New York and Philadelphia, Chicago and Cleveland, to supply the Musik City Shop he set up in 1959. But exclusives - with scratched-out labels - were a must for Downbeat, and when the American public switched to Rock 'n' Roll it was the sudden shortage of killer R&B that spurred Coxsone into the studio. He organised local musicians to produce their own supply of Jump Blues and New Orleans R&B: and Ska evolved from the encounter between these interpretations, such native idioms as Mento, and other favourites like Bossa, Mambo and Merengue, Jazz and Big Band Swing. At first Coxsone would cut these sessions onto dub-plates solely for the use of his sound system, perhaps followed up by a handful of blanks for other deejays. This ideal medium of promotion and market research quickly gauged demand for releases to the public, and so in 1962 - the year of formal independence from Britain - Clement Dodd decided to build the Jamaican Recording and Publishing Studio, better known as Studio One. Behind this affirmation of new nationhood and international ambition is a motive echoed by the Hitsville USA sign on the Motown building in Detroit, and Soulsville USA on the Stax offices in Memphis, and by Motown's slogan 'The Sound Of Young America' where Studio One sleeves would announce 'The sound Of Young Jamaica': the power of music to transcend social difference

Unity and peace are the key themes of Curtis Mayfield, justly celebrated as the major Soul presence of the Rocksteady years 1966-68. (He nodded back with a production credit on the Epic album 'The Real Jamaican Ska'). His songs, arrangements and falsetto lead, his lucid and vulnerable sensibility, poise and sharp tailoring, and the ghost in him of long-time JA favourite Sam Cooke - all these made never-ending impressions. his group themselves stand over a fabulously rich Reggae tradition of vocal trios: here The Eternals stray further than The Techniques from The Impressions' 1962 hit 'Minstrel And Queen' - itself a re-working of 'Gypsy Woman' - as lead singer Cornell Campbell's license elaborates an enraptured reverie about musical inspiration. Curtis' sixties career epitomises the synthesis by Soul music of Gospel and R&B and also its vital and deepening inter-relation - which Reggae followed - with the freedom movement. Significantly, the Rocksteady years mark a period of artistic decline for Curtis himself, reversed by his last two singles for ABC-Paramount in 1968, during the months Rocksteady gave way to Reggae and soft Soul to more diverse influences. 'We're A Winner' and its version 'We're Rollin' On' were both still - in Curtis' words - "locked in with Martin Luther King". The civil rights leader had been acclaimed on his visit to JA three years earlier: in April he was assassinated. In Chicago, in the spring of 1968, Curtis founded his own independent Curtom Records: swapping classic suits and ties for pastel flares and leather trench-coats, he began to imagine a harder, more militant funk. In Kingston - where the new Black Power politics were more attuned than Civil Rights to the militant nationalism of Marcus Garvey - Bob Marley trimmed his locks and combed out an afro, to the sounds of Sly Stone and Jimi Hendrix. With an imitative, inaugural exuberance that harks back ten years to Coxsone's R&B, Leroy Sibbles versions Charles Wright's hippy celebration of the sixties' movement, 'Express Yourself'.

By the close of 1968, students had torn up Paris streets and American campuses, after the example of Black uprisings in US city after city; Tommy Smith and John Carlos had stood with clenched fists on the podium at the Mexico Olympics; American losses to the Tet offensive had at last swung a US majority against the Vietnam War. In Jamaica Peter Tosh and Prince Buster were arrested during a demonstration against the Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith; and there was serious rioting when the Jamaican government blocked re-admission of the Black Power intellectual Walter Rodney. Several tracks on this compilation directly express political energies which were red hot in this first year of Reggae. Others make their soulful impact by encoding social discontent and political resistance in stories about personal grievance, almost to bursting. Sometimes the Reggae version follows Aretha Franklin's anthemic interpretation of 'Respect', and explodes these allegories : in this way - underlined by his new title, 'Set Me Free' - Ken Boothe utterly eclipses Diana Ross' vocal, and Alton Ellis darkens even further Luther Ingram's sublime classic. Though this genre of Reggae-Soul versions is conveniently viewed in weak, lightweight opposition to Roots Reggae, classic Soul made available in powerful and sophisticated form the key terms - loss and pain, hope and longing - of the diaspora consciousness usually assigned exclusively in Reggae to Roots. And at the same time themes based on Garveyite ideas of racial purity unravel along those more maverick routes opened up by cultural mobility and change.

Reggae music refreshes and re-invents continuously. Dub, toasting and juggling turn what is familiar into an ambush. These are techniques of resurrection developed for the dancehall which are themselves reworked in remixing and extended formats, rap and turntablism. A Studio One original like The Cables' 'What Kind Of World' courses through many versions before giving Morgan Heritage - its current worldwide hit 'Down By The River'. Such foundation rhythms have become casually synonymous with Studio One. Likewise nothing in Reggae comes close to the scope and quality of Coxsone's Soul coverage. This is in part a tribute to his own musical taste, but more importantly to his amazing roster of singers, arrangers like Jackie Mittoo, Larry Marshall and Leroy Sibbles, and to the solidity and longevity, inventiveness and technical brilliance of Studio One musicians. Coxsone was the first in Jamaica to hire a full-time studio band: over the years it is easily a match for such acclaimed American counterparts - all represented on this album - as the Funk Brothers at Motown, the Muscle Shoals Band at Fame, Booker T and the MGs at Stax. Many Reggae covers are routine and empty-handed, churned out quickly for easy cash and cheap thrills. This compilation is more like a series of responses: sophisticated and loving, ebullient and heartfelt, affirmative and searching. The music basks in its sources and influences, in a place all its own.


Tracklisting
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1. (00:03:33) Leroy Sibbles - Express Yourself
2. (00:02:49) Norma Fraser - Respect
3. (00:02:43) Leroy Sibbles - Groove Me
4. (00:02:50) Sound Dimension - Time Is Tight
5. (00:03:23) The Heptones - Message From A Black Man
6. (00:03:35) Otis Gayle - I'll Be Around
7. (00:02:49) Jerry Jones - Still Water
8. (00:02:01) Sound Dimension - Soulful Strut
9. (00:03:31) Richard Ace - Can't Get Enough
10. (00:03:58) The Chosen Few - Don't Break Your Promise
11. (00:03:23) The Eternals - Queen Of The Minstrels
12. (00:03:15) Norma Fraser - The First Cut Is The Deepest
13. (00:02:19) Ken Parker - How Strong
14. (00:07:05) Ken Boothe - Set Me Free
15. (00:03:13) Senior Soul - Is It Because I'm Black
16. (00:02:49) Jackie Mittoo - Deeper & Deeper
17. (00:03:31) Alton Ellis - I Don't Want To Be Right
18. (00:03:20) Willie Williams - No One Can Stop Us

Playing Time.........: 01:00:06
Total Size...........: 83.74 MB

Dennis Weaver - (1990) How To Spiritualize Business CS

 Self Realization Fellowship ‎– 2514

George Michael - (1990) Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 CS

 Columbia ‎– 46898 

Robert Goulet - (1982) Close To You CS

  Applause Records ‎– 1011

VA - (2002) Ska All Mighty (Top Ska Classics From The Treasure Isle Label) CD

 Heartbeat Records ‎– 7617
Tracklisting
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1. Don Drummond - Don De Lion [02:04]
2. Owen + Leon Silvera - Running Around [02:33]
3. The Upsetters - Mama Let Her Out [02:36]
4. Tommy McCook And Lynn Taitt - Spanish Eyes [02:59]
5. Derrick Morgan & Naomi - Time Marches On [02:34]
6. Dottie And Bunny - Foul Play [02:39]
7. Don Drummond & The Baba Brooks Band - Melody Jamboree [03:09]
8. The Skatalites - Sailing Along [03:12]
9. Duke Reid Group - Man May Go, Man May Come [02:29]
10. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - What Have I Done [02:37]
11. Roland Alphonso - Feeling Fine [02:52]
12. The Slickers - Man Is Going To Eat Man [02:40]
13. Justin Hinds & The Dominoes - Why Should I Worry [02:59]
14. The Skatalites - Strolling In [02:23]
15. Owen And Leon Silvera With The Skatalites - Skill And Craft[02:28]
16. Stranger Cole With Owen And Leon Silvera - Koo Koo Do [02:10]
17. Justin Hinds & The Dominoes - Corner Stone [02:23]
18. Lynn Taitt And The Baba Brooks Band - Independence Ska [02:35]
19. Hayward Brice And The Baba Brooks Band - Red Gal Ring [02:54]

Playing Time.........: 50:24
Total Size...........: 116.72 MB

VA - (2007) Studio One Rub-A-Dub CD

 Soul Jazz Records ‎– 154 
In the 1970s, Clement Dodd’s legendary Studio One Records went through an amazing period of re-birth working with new artists such as Willie Williams, Lone Ranger, Michigan and Smiley, Horace Andy as well as continuing to work with classic artists such as Alton Ellis, Freddie McGregor, etc. Re-versioning classic Studio One rhythms became the order of the day in the 1970s, not just with Studio One boss Clement ‘Coxsone’ Dodd, but with every Jamaican producer of note employing their own in-house musicians to copy the music emanating from Brentford Road. The music on Studio One Rub-A-Dub features classic and rare tracks from this amazing period, from the likes of Cornel Campbell, The Heptones, Johnny Osbourne and many other legendary artists. Sleeve-notes are by Chris Salewicz, the acclaimed writer who has written books on Joe Strummer, Bob Marley, The Rolling Stones and many more.

 Tracklist:
Cornell Campbell - My Conversation
Lone Ranger - Screw Gone A North Coast
Judah Eskender Tafari - Danger In Your Eyes
Rapper Robert & Jim Brown - Minister For Ganja
Freddie McGregor - How Could You Leave
Barry Brown - Give Love
Len Allen Jr - White Belly Rat
Johnny Osbourne - Forgive Them
Jennifer Lara - Natural Mystic
Horace Andy - Happiness
Rapper Robert & Jim Brown - Pirate
Willie Williams - Keep On Moving
Papa Michigan & General Smiley - Jah A The Creator
Ethiopian - Empty Belly
Earl 16 - No Mash Up The Dance
The Jay Tees - Forward To Jah
Lone Ranger - Natty Chalwa

VA - (2007) This Is Dub: The Original Dub Masters 3xCD

Union Square Music Ltd. ‎– 830 

Here is the history of dub from its experimental origins to the end of its golden era of the 1970s. Featuring King Tubby, Lee Perry, Horace Andy, and any number of echoing appearances by some of reggae's greatest voices, this is the roughest, toughest, yet most chilled sound ever recorded.

 Tracklist:
1-1 –The Destroyers Straight To The Head
1-2 –Lynn Taitt & The Jets Soul Food
1-3 –The Engineers & The Upsetters Evol Yanoh
1-4 –Tommy & The Upsetters Lock Jaw
1-5 –The Upsetters Clint Eastwood
1-6 –The Crashers Musical Fighting (aka Target)
1-7 –Rue Lloyd Loving You
1-8 –The Hippy Boys Voodoo
1-9 –Lee 'Scratch' Perry & The Upsetters Kill Them All
1-10 –The Upsetters Kinky Mood
1-11 –Lee 'Scratch' Perry & The Upsetters Sipreano
1-12 –Byron Lee & The Dragonaires Squeeze Up
1-13 –Augustus Pablo East Of The River Nile
1-14 –Bob Marley & The Wailers Kaya (Scat Mix / Kaya Version)
1-15 –Dennis Brown & The Crystalites Acid Version
1-16 –Charlie Ace & Lee Perry Cow Thief Skank
1-17 –The Upsetters Tipper Special
1-18 –The Crystalites Tough Version
1-19 –Augustus Pablo & The Crystalites Bells Of Death
1-20 –Augustus Pablo & King Tubby Bass and Drums
2-1 –The Upsetters Feat. Dillinger Dub Organiser
2-2 –The Upsetters V/S Panta Rock
2-3 –Augustus Pablo Hot & Cold Version One
2-4 –The Observers New Style
2-5 –Lee Perry & The Upsetters Liquid Serenade
2-6 –Rupie Edwards Dr Satan's Echo Chamber
2-7 –Tommy McCook & The Aggrovators A Version I Can Feel With Love
2-8 –Observer All Stars & King Tubby Rasta Locks
2-9 –Treasure Isle All Stars Arabian Dub
2-10 –Techniques All Stars Stalag 17 Version
2-11 –The Observer & King Tubby Youth Man
2-12 –Mafia All Stars & King Tubby Don't Think About Me (I'm Alright)
2-13 –King Tubby & The Aggrovators Jehovah Version
2-14 –King Tubby Dread Satta Version
2-15 –Horace Andy Nice And Easy Dub
2-16 –King Tubby & The Aggrovators A Glorious Dub
2-17 –King Tubby & The Aggrovators Crisp Version
2-18 –King Tubby Watchman Dub
2-19 –King Tubby King Tubby's In Fine Style
2-20 –Jackie Edwards & The Aggrovators Invasion Version
3-1 –King Tubby A Rougher Version
3-2 –Johnny Clarke & The Aggrovators A Ruffer Version
3-3 –Rupie Edwards Ire Feelings (Skanga)
3-4 –Lee 'Scratch' Perry & The Upsetters* Doctor On The Go
3-5 –The Upsetters Kingdom Of Dub
3-6 –Lee 'Scratch' Perry & The Upsetters Woman's Dub
3-7 –Prince Jazzbo Ital Corner
3-8 –Linval Thompson & The Aggrovators A King Version
3-9 –Linval Thompson & The Revolutionaries Jamaican Colley Version
3-10 –Bob Marley & The Wailers Rainbow Country Dub
3-11 –Lee 'Scratch' Perry Disco Devil
3-12 –Twin Roots Know Love
3-13 –Linval Thompson & The Aggrovators Conquering Version
3-14 –Michael Rose & Prince Jammy Born Free Dub
3-15 –Scientist & The Roots Radics Scientist Ganja Dub
3-16 –Tommy McCook & The Aggrovators African World Wide Version
3-17 –The Roots Radics Band Mission Impossible
3-18 –Sly & Robbie Soon Forward Dub
3-19 –Prince Far I Natty Champion
3-20 –The Revolutionaries Feat. Sly & Robbie 79 Rock

VA - (2006) Lagos - Stori Plenti - Urban Sounds from Nigeria CD

Out Here Records ‎– 005 
 Lagos Stori Plenti is the first internationally-released compilation that presents the new sound from Nigeria. Straight from the largest country in Africa, this release taps into the lyrical and musical expressions of a young generation that grew up on hip-hop, reggae and dancehall in one of the craziest cities in the world. It is about guys like Eedris Abdulkareem from Kano coming to Lagos with nothing in his pocket but a dream to make it as a musician, who would later tour Nigeria with 50 Cent. There is Ruggedman who took hip-hop to a new level by dissing many of the fake American-sounding rap star wannabes. JJC from London experiments with fusing traditional instruments into his productions. Cologne-based Bantu mixes fuji and Afrobeat on his award-winning album Fuji Satisfaction and created a style that blends Lagos sensibilities with the European sound. Afrobeat is heartily represented by Dede Mabiaku, who used to open shows for Fela Kuti and releases his first track internationally here. The most vibrant music comes from Lagos' neglected ghetto, Ajegunle (AJ). "Nigeria's Kingston" as some call it, lives on reggae/dancehall with its own style of pidgin and hilarious dancing. AJ is represented here by Nutty & Wharfy and African China from neighboring Orile whose song "Mr President" is huge in Lagos at the moment. Then there are the guys who rap in English: Modenine with "419 State Of Mind Pt. 2" takes up the topic of 419, the legal term for "advance fee fraud," and Terry Tha Rapman, with his politically-charged spoof on Eminem, on "I Am A Nigerian." There are also songs about love and loss, for example, Six Foot +'s song "Anwuli," with the chorus: "Anwuli, she chop (eat) my money and go." Lagos Stori Plenti represents a fresh mix of hip-hop, reggae, salsa and dancehall that truly represents the sound of youth, as they struggle to preserve their completely unique Nigerian sound while still reflecting their diverse musical influences.

“Hi, do you trust Nigerians, the kind of people who are rugged and resilient, shady like Sicilians … ”? In the opening track ’I am a Nigerian’ Terry tha Rapman from Lagos shares his daily life experience quoting a song by one of his favourite rappers from the US: “I buy fake designer clothes from Aba, you wanna try? Who needs Calvin Klein, when you got Oko Klien? My shoes are dead from trekking, I`m close to stealing yours and exchanging your designer boxers with my stinking drawers. So tell me, am I dead or alive? I can barely decide, so many times I contemplated suicide ...“.

‘Lagos stori plenti’ is about tapping into the lyrical and musical expressions of a young generation from the largest country in Africa. A generation that grew up on hip-hop, reggae and dancehall in one of the craziest cities in the world. This is the first internationally released compilation that presents this new sound from Nigeria. It is about guys like Eedris Abdulkareem from Kano coming to Lagos with nothing in his pocket but a dream to make it as a musician. Eight years later he tours Nigeria with 50 Cent, but gets into a fight with 50 Cent’s bodyguards, feeling Nigerian artists on the tour are not getting the respect they deserve. There is Ruggedman who took hip-hop to a new level by dissing many of the fake American sounding rap star wannabees. Another voice comes from the Nigerian Diaspora. It is the innovative force in terms of sound. JJC from London experiments with fusing traditional instruments into his productions. Bantu living in Cologne just came up with a new mix of fuji and afrobeat on his Kora award-winning album ‘Fuji Satisfaction’ and created a style that could not have come out of Lagos. Afrobeat is represented by Dede Mabiaku, who used to open shows for the late Fela and releases his first track internationally here. The most vibrant music comes from Lagos’ neglected ghetto Ajegunle (AJ). Nigeria’s Kingston as some call it, lives on reggae/dancehall with an own style of Pidgin and hilarious dancing. AJ is represented here by Nutty & Wharfy and African China from neighbouring Orile whose song ‘Mr President’ is huge in Lagos at the moment. Then there are the guys who rap in English: Modenine and Terry tha Rapman. Check out Modenine’s ‘419 state of mind pt. 2’ that takes up the topic of 419, the legal term for the so-called ‘advance fee fraud’, a form of crime the country has become notorious for. Six Foot + with his song ‘Anwuli’, about a girl he loved an trusted, with the chorus: “Anwuli, she chop (eat) my money and go…” or Terry tha Rapman in ‘I am a Nigerian’ whose girlfriend feels that: ”Nigerian men are not romantic, they don’t buy expensive gifts”. Fed up with his situation, he sums up his feelings: “…I`m a very angry man, arrgh, so don’t tempt me man. Just for letting you live, you oughta thank me man, cuz we live in a country, where nothin` works and it drives me beserk to face another day wit an empty purse''.


Track Listing
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1. I am a Nigerian (Terry tha Rapman) (4:38)
2. Demu Gani (JJC & 419 Squad feat. T.I.D.) (4:04)
3. Tetter to the President (Eedris Abdulkareem) (4:54)
4. Ijoya (Weird MC) (3:32)
5. Odolayé (Azadus, Bantu, Modenine, Dede) (5:25)
6. 419 State of Mind pt. 2 (Modenine feat. OD) (4:10)
7. Give me a Chance (Nutty & Wharfy) (4:25)
8. Mr. President (Africa China feat. Efe) (5:15)
9. Baraje (Ruggedman) (5:10)
10. Faze alone (Faze) (5:08)
11. Tongolo (D'banj) (4:07)
12. Oya (Bantu feat. Ayuba) (6:15)
13. Niger Delta Jam (Dede) (8:18)
14. Anwuli (Six Foot +) (4:58)

Total Playing Time: 70:26 (min:sec)
Total Size : 161.2 MB (169,073,905 bytes)